However, at 3 a.m. on June 27, the German Foreign Office sent a draft treaty to Hiroshi Oshima, who was asleep. The treaty stated that Germany would fight alongside Japan against the United States and agreed not to make peace alone.

Then, as if it had been agreed not to let the Japanese ambassador get a good night's sleep, Italy's newly appointed foreign minister sent the Japanese ambassador a copy of the same draft treaty.

However, when the draft arrived, Reinhardt and Rossi never meant to sign it.

As a result, the Japanese now had a draft treaty that had been verbally approved by the heads of state of Germany and Italy, but they simply did not sign it.

The nervous Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs finally felt that something was wrong, but they were suspicious that Reinhardt and Rossi were delaying because they wanted to get a lucrative quid pro quo, such as if the Allied military bloc wanted to participate in Japan's war against the United States, Japan would have to participate in the Allied war against the Soviet Union.

In this mode of thinking, the Japanese Foreign Minister hastened to give instructions in a telegram sent to Hiroshi Oshima on June 30:

"If the German and Italian sides ask about our attitude towards the Soviet Union, inform them that our Government has clarified our attitude towards the Soviet Union in a statement issued in July. They were also told that the current movement in the south of our country did not mean that the pressure on the Soviet Union was relaxed. But for the time being, it is in our interest to concentrate our forces on the South, so we cannot take any direct action against the North for the time being. When the main force of the U.S. Army is resolved, the Empire of Japan will definitely send troops north to flank the Soviet Union with the Allied forces! ”

Whether the Japanese would flank the Soviet Union with Germany, Reinhardt could not guarantee. But he can be sure that with the foundation of the Japanese army, it is absolutely impossible to really solve the main force of the US army.

The main forces of the Americans were damaged, and in the blink of an eye more and stronger warships could be built to replenish them. Although the combat power needs to be run-in, the quantity and quality of the warships are very guaranteed. But the Japanese Navy, that is really a fight and a weakening once.

But that's not something Reinhardt needs to worry about.

The Japanese like to die, and they can also contain the United States for Germany by the way, and this is already the best situation.

As for how the Japanese Kwantung Army will be used, whether it will go north or not, there is no need to worry. Speaking of which, although the Japanese Kwantung Army is known as the "flower of the imperial army" by their base camp and is known as the trump card among aces, its combat effectiveness is at most first-class in Asia.

In Europe, this so-called trump card may not be able to win against the French army, which was once the first army in Europe, let alone the German army, which is now ranked first.

Once the Soviet Union was defeated, and when the German army had the ability to transport troops to the Far East, the total annihilation of the Kwantung Army would be nothing more than a small test for the German army.

What's more, even if this Kwantung Army does not go north, it can become a pawn of Germany.

Once the United States and Japan started a big fight, there was a good chance that the Japanese base camp would begin to draw troops from the Kwantung Army to reinforce the Pacific theater. In the later stages of the war between the United States and Japan, according to the temperament of the Japanese base camp, they probably still counted on this "elite division" to save their fate of defeat.

In the original history, the Japanese base camp was the largest, and a full 13 divisions and a special standing corps with a high degree of mechanization were transferred from the Kwantung Army to fight the US forces in the Pacific theater. As a result, these elites of the Kwantung Army not only failed to reverse the defeat of the Pacific War, but instead served as cannon fodder in vain against the United States.

In history, when the U.S. army won a complete victory and Japan had to concentrate its forces to prepare for a decisive battle on its own territory, the Japanese army withdrew seven divisions from the Kwantung Army and transferred nearly one-third of the strategic materials and a large number of personnel from the Kwantung Army back to China.

This is also the reason why the Soviet army was able to easily sweep the Kwantung Army in history. Not because the Soviet army was strong enough, but because the Japanese Kwantung Army at that time was weak enough!

According to Reinhardt's character, of course, he likes to watch the Japanese provide a lot of cannon fodder for the war against the United States, and he never gets tired of it.

However, it was precisely because he knew that even if the Japanese army mobilized its maximum strength, it would not be possible to stop the strong military power of the American army, so Reinhardt also provided the Japanese Navy with a large amount of technology, including the valuable submarine technology summarized by the German Navy and the anti-submarine tactics summarized from the British.

All of this is aimed at keeping Japan in check on the United States as effectively as possible, so that the United States does not have too much spare power to influence the war situation in Europe.

You must know that the day after Marshal Bock launched a full-front counterattack, US President Roosevelt proposed a new aid agreement with the Soviet Union.

In addition to the plan to provide the Soviet Union with a series of strategic materials such as iron and steel, this agreement also provided 300 precision machining machines of various types with half-sale and half-delivery.

What's more, there are also P-39 fighters, which are claimed to be no less combative than German fighters, and B-25 bombers, which can carry 2.3 tons of explosives, with nearly 1,000 planes of all kinds.

In addition, 300 Sherman tanks that were intended to be supplied to the British army, but were not sent to the British mainland because of the British surrender, were also on the aid list.

In order to make up for the lack of rubber needed to produce tires and aluminum for the production of airframes, the United States will also sell large quantities of natural rubber and finished aluminum to the Soviet Union at a very low price.

In addition, the amount of aid provided by transport planes, military vehicles, armored vehicles, motorcycles, trains, various types of artillery, submachine guns, etc., as well as the huge amount of aid provided by explosives, steel, food, etc., are all on a jaw-dropping scale.

After a complete set of aid programs, the cost is already astronomical.

This, of course, is due to the fact that the United States must prop up the last of its powerful allies to resist the Third Reich, which may be on the verge of taking full control of the continent.

Japan's Combined Fleet has long been poised to launch, and has recently held various simulated combat exercises. What they are going to do next can be seen by anyone who has gone to military school.

If the United States and Japan were to go head-to-head, Marshall had already assured Roosevelt that the US military would be able to defeat Japan 100 percent in the end.

However, if Germany defeated the Soviet Union and became the dominant power on the Eurasian continent, then the outcome of the war between the United States and Japan would not have been decided by the two belligerents, the United States and Japan.

As long as the Germans agreed to the request to join forces with the Japanese against the United States, it would essentially be equivalent to the entire Allied military bloc joining the war against the United States.

In this case, the future prospects for the United States are very sad.

Therefore, even if Roosevelt was bleeding heavily, he had to resist the opposition pressure of the parliamentarians and transfuse a large amount of blood to the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet Union could contain Germany's energy.

Sadly, Germany used Japan to restrain the United States, but only shared some technical things, without any substantive contributions, and even asked the Japanese to beg for their help.

And the United States used the Soviet Union to contain Germany, which was indeed bleeding heavily, sacrificing its own interests to strengthen the Soviet Union, and it may not be able to win Stalin's gratitude.

is also a combination of vertical and horizontal means, Reinhardt's skills are obviously much higher than Roosevelt......